CVE-2012-4205

Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Thunderbird before 17.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 assign the system principal, rather than the sandbox principal, to…

published November 21, 2012

CVSS
—
EPSS
2%
Percentile
75.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Thunderbird before 17.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 assign the system principal, rather than the sandbox principal, to XMLHttpRequest objects created in sandboxes, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks or obtain sensitive information by leveraging a sandboxed add-on.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01613 · 75.6th percentile
Published
2012-11-21T11:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 NOV 11:00Z
    Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Thunderbird before 17.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 assign the system principal, rather than the sandbox principal, to…
    cvelistv5